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One Family Under God Campaign

A Global Peace Foundation project in:

The One Family Under God campaign was initiated at the Global Peace Leadership Conference in Abuja in 2013. It is a values-based approach to peacebuilding and community development that taps the moral authority of religious leaders and traditional rulers. Global Peace Foundation - Nigeria and partners have worked to educate faith leaders and encourage substantial cooperation between faith communities through retreats, get-togethers, summits, and substantial projects.

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Earlier this year in May 2018, the local elections were coming up in Nigeria’s Southern Kaduna. There were nervous expectations that the elections would bring with it political violence. In fact, in the last decade, every local election had been preceded by or followed by some form of violence.

"People are taking the law into their own hands," says Osai Ojigho, director for Amnesty International in Nigeria. “The biggest problem,” says human rights activist Sarli Sardou Nana, “is that the perpetrators are not punished.

In recognizing the effectiveness and relevance of the Global Peace Foundation (GPF) interfaith approach taken in Nigeria, GPF Uganda began conducting a pilot One Family Under God Campaign in partnership with the Interreligious Council of Uganda.